HCB Chapter 229 The Empress Dowager is dying?
Chapter 229 The Empress Dowager is dying?
Shen Zhiyi was extremely excited.
[System, oh system, I didn't expect you to be useful after so long. Yes, it's this profile, it's this!]
The system, which was happy for less than a second, was quickly brought back to its original state.
Frustrated, he chose to mute himself.
Wow, such a handsome profile! He's the Prefect of Xuzhou.
Shen Zhiyi showed a pained expression.
What a waste! Such a beautiful face, utterly ruined.
The old emperor and the others nodded in agreement once again.
After Shen Zhiyi exposed the embarrassing incidents in the life of the Prefect of Xu, everyone's impression of the Prefect of Xu is now very bad.
The governor of Xuzhou was forcibly broken down and restarted, leaving him completely numb.
After the anesthesia, there was a deep fear of Shen Zhiyi.
That's terrifying, this person is absolutely terrifying.
No wonder she was even more favored than the old emperor's own daughter.
Shen Zhiyi can find out anything she wants, and she can even tell you about the disgusting dreams that the Prefect of Xu had.
He shivered.
Silently, he added "Shen Zhiyi" to the list of people he couldn't mess with.
Who would dare to mess with them? If you do, death would be the least of your worries; you might even lose your innocence.
Death is a small matter, but losing one's reputation is a huge deal. He doesn't want to be infamous for eternity.
Honestly, he's been living off his looks, and after discovering the location of the gold mine was reported to the higher-ups, he didn't even inform the governor, intending to embezzle it for himself.
The Prefect of Xuzhou suddenly looked up.
what? !
After all that, it turned out that it was Xu Changshi, his partner of several years, who wanted to kill him.
She didn't tell him about something so important, and even tried to keep it for herself.
He went to check out that gold mine; it was huge.
Let alone the old emperor's mere three thousand taels of gold, even ten thousand taels of gold wouldn't be a problem.
With so much gold, how dare a mere clerk embezzle it!
He wouldn't dare!
The old emperor narrowed his eyes and sneered.
The governor of Xuzhou's legs went weak.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I will investigate immediately."
After saying that, he quickly moistened himself.
That very night, he efficiently investigated the whole story, leaving no stone unturned, and arrested all the culprits.
This heinous crime, punishable by the extermination of nine generations of one's family, terrified the wealthy merchant's entire family, who were to marry the Prefect of Xuzhou the next day, causing them to faint.
Almost, just a little bit.
Their entire family will also be implicated.
Subsequently, the Prefect of Xuzhou and other relevant officials who were aware of the situation were all taken to Caishikou and beheaded in public.
No, the Prefect of Xuzhou had a special privilege.
He was dragged away and torn apart by five horses.
That day, the stench of blood lingered in the market for three whole days.
[My God, you can touch anything, just don't touch the old emperor's money! This is the most ruthless killing the old emperor has ever done.]
The Prefect of Xuzhou was torn apart by five horses, and none of his nine generations of relatives escaped either.
Some were killed, others were exiled; it was all done cleanly.
This completely terrified the governor of Xuzhou.
He decided to turn over a new leaf and be a better person from now on.
During this period, the governor of Xuzhou kept a low profile, fearing that he might offend the old emperor.
He was glad that he had used the old emperor's money for important matters.
He bet that if he took even a single tael of the old emperor's money for himself, he would never have a good life.
Besides the governor of Xuzhou who kept a low profile, Shen Zhiyi also kept a low profile.
She was terrified.
Ah, even a model citizen like me has never seen anything like this before. My legs are still trembling. Ah, I'm so pathetic.
The old emperor chuckled and looked down at Shen Zhiyi's trembling legs.
Wow, that's really true.
I haven't seen enough; I just need to see more.
Besides Shen Zhiyi, the Eighth Princess was also quite frightened and has been staying in her room for the past few days, barely eating anything.
I even had nightmares that night.
Overwhelmed by nightmares, the Eighth Princess ran out barefoot, and her maids couldn't stop her.
"Princess, princess."
The Eighth Princess ran all the way to the old emperor's temporary study, startling the maids behind her.
"Father, Father."
Seeing the Eighth Princess running towards him with snot and tears streaming down her face, the old emperor was momentarily dazed.
Of all his children, the one who dared to challenge him the most was the Crown Prince, and as for his daughter, that was the former Sixth Princess.
But even the Sixth Princess, with all her courage, wouldn't dare to run over like the Eighth Princess, so utterly lacking in decorum.
"What's going on?"
[Oh, the old emperor's fatherly love suddenly surged up at this moment!]
The sarcastic tone immediately embarrassed the old emperor.
"Dad, I just had a nightmare. I dreamt that my mother died. It scared me to death, sob sob sob."
"Dreams are all reverses."
Well, the Eighth Princess's biological mother is still alive, but the old emperor's biological mother is dying.
Old Emperor: ? ? ?
He suspected that he had heard wrongly.
The Empress Dowager has been staying at the imperial mausoleum, claiming she wants to guard the late emperor. This reason simply doesn't hold water.
The old emperor blew on his beard in frustration.
Whether the reason is valid or not, as long as his mother is happy, that's all that matters.
Why would an 80-year-old man leave the palace and travel to a remote imperial mausoleum?
[Of course, it's to protect her deceased husband from being cuckolded.]
Chen Decai and Zhang Sheren were so frightened that they dared not move.
What is this? Can they even understand it?
The Empress Dowager is over eighty years old, and the late Emperor is dead. How can she still be cuckolded?
You can't...
Good heavens! No wonder the old emperor looked so frivolous; it turns out the upper beam is crooked, so the lower beam will be crooked too.
This Empress Dowager is quite formidable.
Shen Zhiyi was stunned.
But the old emperor doesn't want to hear any of this.
All he wanted to know was what was wrong with his mother, and why she was dying so fast.
[After the late emperor's death and burial in the imperial mausoleum, she staged a scene of deep marital affection in front of the old emperor, expressing her desire to join him at the mausoleum. Thus, the woman, over sixty years old, led a group of people to the imperial mausoleum.]
The old emperor also had his doubts at the time, after all, his father had become arrogant after he became emperor.
[That's normal. Ordinary people get cocky when they get a little power, let alone a peasant who becomes emperor through rebellion. With so much power, he gets incredibly arrogant, and he has a different beauty every night, which infuriates the Empress Dowager.]
After the late emperor's death, she became the Empress Dowager. Lying in her palace bed late at night, she grew increasingly resentful. So she made a bold decision: even though the late emperor was dead, she would still cuckold him. Thus, the Empress Dowager went to the old emperor's mausoleum.
The old emperor's eyelids kept twitching.
His intuition told him that Shen Zhiyi's next words were not something a human should listen to.
He silently turned his head to look at the person next to him.
Even the most diligent officials in court aren't this attentive!